The massive undertaking that is each season’s annual Telus B.C. senior and junior girls basketball championships brings 56 teams from all over our province to the Langley Events Centre.
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ERIN COLE: The PGSS Polar brings a fighter’s will to the LEC
(Editor’s note — Each year, in advance of the girls championships, I send out requests for information on teams I never get to watch during their season of play, hoping coaches will take the time to enlighten in all manner of team aspects.This year, Prince George Secondary head coach Tracy Cole took the time to […]
Hey Lou! Five B.C. finals in cards for ‘Cats No. 5? Forsyth our 2017 POY
LANGLEY — Louise Forsyth joined the basketball program at Brookswood Secondary as an eighth grader back in the fall of 2012 as a player oozing promise.Yet if you had peeked in on one her earlier phys-ed classes being run under the watchful eye of Neil Brown, the architect of one of Canada’s most successful high […]
Tupper vs. South: It’s all on line Tuesday for B.C. boys JV banner
LANGLEY — Vancouver’s Sir Charles Tupper Tigers and the Burnaby South Rebels have both enjoyed the kinds of seasons befitting their status as chief combatants in Tuesday’s Telus 2017 B.C. Junior Boys championship final.
Jake Cowley: No whispers about Grove senior’s whiskers
LANGLEY — Hope springs eternal on the face of Jake Cowley.
Pinetree who? BC-bound Wolves more than a faceless pack
LANGLEY —The Pinetree Timberwolves admit their lineage in the world of B.C. boys high school basketball is virtually non-existent.
East Van growl: These Tupper Tigers have claws and game!
LANGLEY — For over a decade, Gaurab Acharya has been living the Sir Charles Tupper Secondary basketball dream.
Husky Power: New mantra trumps low seed as North Delta in Final Four
LANGLEY — The North Delta Huskies labeled their unexpected loss in the third round of the recently-completed Fraser Valley junior varsity championships as “well-timed.”
Ellen Kett: Why the SFU Clan point guard is the GNAC’s MVP
BURNABY — Momentum is such a fragile intangible that once you’ve got it, you’ll do anything to keep it.
Irish depth zaps rally of Saints in Mainland AAA final
RICHMOND — Not that any of this is being scripted from above, but act three of a potential four-act play found our chief protagonists locked in a familiar script Friday at The Oval.